Finally came across a commandline way for configuring unattended upgrades: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9/how-do-i-enable-automatic-updates/204#204 Here are the commands: sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades Very useful for servers... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/